In 1956 he painted the earliest surviving Self-Portrait. The information in the present section on francis-bacon.com is based on the data in Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné by Martin Harrison and Rebecca Daniels, which was published by The Estate of Francis Bacon in 2016. Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait At present this site reflects the contents of the published Radio Times BBC listings. He has also been hailed as the greatest British painter since Turner. Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait Francis Bacon's paintings have been called sick and corrupt. In 1951 Bacon created his first portrait of an identified sitter, Portrait of Lucian Freud, although it was in fact based on a photograph of Franz Kafka that Bacon had found in a book.